Until you define the product of your time and energy, you will be forever chasing your dreams. Chasing dreams is like searching for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Chasing dreams is that sensation you have after a really good dream where you are connecting with another but upon waking are… Read More

Look around and there’s all kinds of positive self-help, coaching and marketing mumbo jumbo. We crave it like cocaine, crack or any other highly addictive drug. The positive pushing pimps of the world wield it to sucker us into all kinds of things like buying Coke, cars or cream to make our pimples vanish. It’s… Read More

A moment’s observations easily reveals how we as individuals typically do not take the long-view in life or endeavors at work. Our decisions are based on short-term constraints, benefits, pleasures or gratifications more than strategic perspectives, long-range goals, or positively effecting our environment. Everyone is somewhere along that spectrum, but we tend to decide things… Read More

I recently came across a couple of things speaking of passion. The first was Isabel Allende giving a TED talk telling “Tales of Passion.” The second was a blog I follow on WordPress about “The Follow Your Passion Fallacy.” Both were interesting in their own right. However, I was struck with their relation to the… Read More

I was first introduced to the idea of ego depletion in Roy Baumeister’s book Willpower, Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. Ego depletion is one of the primary factors affection our willpower. Our willpower and self-control draw on a limited pool of mental resources. Our mental resources are directly related to our available energy which is… Read More

When we go about our day-to-day activities, we can easily get lost in the repetitive, lackluster nature of things. We turn a lot of things in our daily lives into habits so we may accomplish more without using precious energy to think about our actions. Freeing energy to focus on more threatening things is the… Read More

The gap between what we want and where we are creates tension in our lives. This tension may be used to create worry. It can be felt as stress or emotional upset which can even lead to physical pain. It can also be utilized to our benefit. Tension is a form of energy. Like a… Read More